tonight, tweet tweet. the story of the congressman and the underpants. >> we're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from. >> i'm not going to talk about this anymore. >> he's not to be trusted. >> the former sexting congressman admits he did send more graphic photos. >> continue to give me a second chance. >> i think he should drop out. >> the cover of "rolling stone" is a place normally reserved for rock stars, but tonight, the magazine is taking heat for maki making him the latest cover. >> bad idea. >> believe in my heart and i will spend my life, never

entered my body. >> one time most valuable player, benched. >> major league baseball has defended ryan braun. aaron hernandez is released by his team, the new england patriots. >> the charge is a murder charge. >> sad day. really a sad day. >> the football star aaron hernandez is now charged with murdering one of his friends. >> it's a sad day. >> sad. kind of bums you out a little bit. >> and welcome to "saving america," where we're going explore the reasons behind the cultural decay taking place right here in the u.s. we'll turn our focus to lack of morality in the world of politics, the troubling controversy surrounding professional athletes and much, much more. we begin with new allegations facing new york city mayoral candidate, anthony weiner. the disgraced excongressman was

forced to admit tuesday that he had send x-rated photos long after he had resigned from congress. >> there are a few, i said at the time of my resignation, there were six, i don't believe there have been any, i don't think in total there are anymore. here's the problem as i start to say this, you know, i don't -- there are people that i've had exchanges with that are compl e completely and there are no pictures or texts or anything like that. now, if those people want to say they don't like the changes they had either, i don't know where to put them. all i can say is that it's not -- just like i told the post and they made a big headline of it. it's not dozens and dozens. it is six to ten i suppose, but i can't tell you absolutely what someone else is going to consider inpromineappropriate o. >> shortly after that statement, we sent our cameras to follow an event where he was swarmed by

the press and it seemed everybody had an opinion on his situation. >> i'm not interested in voting for somebody who's maybe their focus isn't where it needs to be. >> i don't think it should matter. i think people are people. normal. i think the more normal you are, the more people respond to you in a normal way, so i don't think it's that big of a deal. >> anthony weiner's private life is his private life and his ability to serve has nothing to do with that. >> the fact she's forgiven him, it's nice. i'm not sure that really has anything to do with his qualifications to be mayor. i think he's lost it. >> it's ridiculous. and the reason scandal. >> and the scandal -- takes away from what politics are all about in this city. >> it's not about him. >> how can you trust someone like that? >> given to what happened, he has his wife by his side and i feel he should have another

chance. >> he's apologized over and over and he's still doing it, so anybody who's still supporting him is just in denial. >> as long as he's effect neviaeh office, by all means. there are people doing much worse i'm sure. >> he has a compulsive problem and i can't imagine what he would do if he was the mayor and there was some kind of big event that he was worried about. he'd be sexting all over the place. >> all right. strangely enough, the only people who did not want to talk about anthony weiner, well, his supporters, just silently on the streets holding up signs. >> tell us why he should be mayor? >> no one wants to talk to us. >> nothing to say about why he should be mayor? >> he's not the only politician, republican or democrat, to find themselves embroiled in scandal, however, the important question here tonight, has this behavior become the new norm here

tonight? is power more important than dignity and how can we help save america? here to help answer those questions, our wonderful studio answer. show of hands. does private life like anthony weiner, should it matter in an election? yes? hold your hands up. no. hands up. >> first of all, most men cheat. i would say about no, i would say, so, the first thing is most men cheat. we're one of the few species who tries to not have cheating as part of our lives. this is actually true. the next thing is that we have to look at what politicses have to say about the issues. kennedy did it 100 years ago. bill clinton did it 100 years ago.

it doesn't matter. >> i take exception as a man that all men cheat. how about women cheating? but that's not the point here. >> have you ever cheated? >> i haven't. i've been married 20 years. >> you're one of the few. anywhere else here hasn't cheated? there you go. thank you very much. >> where do you get the evidence that most men cheat? >> did i see your hand go up? >> almost for this reason. it depends what the private misbehavior is. clinton had the cigar and the blue dress. now, he lied under oath to a federal judge -- >> i did not have sex with that woman, not a single time. >> did he lie to a federal judge committing contempt of court, yes? now, in anthony's weiner case, what this admits to, the guy's a pervert, there's tho question he has a sexual problem. >> do you want a pervert being in office? >> weiner was taking a picture

of his weiner. >> what about sandusky? >> that's about technology. he's still no different than say bill clinton. i don't like the term, as a matter of fact, his online pseudonym should be fugly psycho. >> technology allows him to do it now. as far as all men cheating, if all you date is married men, you're going to have that perception. all right. weiner does what he does. all that can be debated over and over. let's go to compromise in his office and what he does in his judgment. we expect our politicians to be to have judgment. our elected officials. how dood good is his judgment when he lies about it. he asks for your trusts as a voter, then does it again and by the way, there is more coming on anthony weiner and what he's done. >> here's the difference with

bill clinton. bill clinton did this act in office. in the oval office. that's where he should held accountable and we've created this atmosphere of allowing politicians to become celebrities and it's the misinformed voter that's allowing him to be re-elected. >> we're spending time debating smek l gait when huma abedin, who has connections to the muslim brotherhood, chief connections with al-qaeda, is his wife. why are we debating this? >> actually, what brooke points to, that's the real huma abedin story. and her ties to islamic -- >> also, assistant to our secretary. >> and soon to be maybe next president of the united states. that's what this story is really about. >> first of all, a lot of that has been disputed. i don't think we're going to get into that here, but she's not running for office. we're not talking to her. i do think the larger issue that you raised here, sean, is this

kind of thing happens to democrats and republicans because we have allowed our political leader, our celebrities, to fester in this culture. we put individuals above everyone in the common place. they're in government. they should be working for the common good. >> sally's making a point. is really they represent the people. the people have decided what, it's okay? >> in some cases, they have. but in terms of going back to bill clinton, bill clinton is the president of the united states. set an example. and hillary clinton set an example that women should lower their standards and dismiss this behavior so they can have power and that translates powers later for them. weiner is a sexual predator and i take issue with the idea that we as human beings shouldn't have a level of monogamy and control. we're not animals. not all men cheat.

>> that anthony weiner is a sexual predator and just because he is engaging in very creepy behavior, it doesn't make him a sexual predator. >> this is technology that has changed things, but kind of reminds me of the guy with the raincoat flashing people. >> he engaged in an exchange of information. this is a guy who's on -- elected official. let me finish. we have got to take a break. character to be the mayor of this great city. this guy's a slime ball. >> all right, now, coming up, we examine why "rolling stone" magazine chose to feature a cold-blooded terrorist on its cover and why some people are actually coming out in support of this bomber in boston. plus, we sent our cameras to boston to see what the residents of beantown think about all this. straight aahead. >> celebrities, "rolling

stone's" the cover you want to be on. people say it's glorifying him. might not be glorifying it, but just making him more of a just making him more of a cele

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welcome back. later tonight, we're going to take a look at the inside world of sports and some of the athletes who have fallen from grace, ryan braun, to the murder charges now facing former new england patriots star, aaron

hernandez and we'll have studio reaction. now, before we go there, we want to turn our focus to another hot topic. that being "rolling stone" magazine's decision to feature dzhokhar tsarnaev. he appears front and center on the latest edition. not surprisingly, it sparked outrake across the country. we went to the coply square, the scene of the explosion. >> for celebrities, it's the cover you want to be on. people say it's glorifying it, may not be glorifying it, but it's making him more of a celebrity and i don't think it's right. >> i think if anything, they tried to glorify the humanity inside him and i think that's important to remember that we are all human beings and we all have the capacity to do good things and bad things. >> for him to get like "rolling

stone" cover, i feel like they're making him to be a celebrity. >> very insensitive. they have the freedom to publish it, but i think society itself has the freedom to express their opinions. >> it kind of tells young kids, hey f you do something crazy and ridiculous like this, you might be glorified like that, too, on a magazine cover. >> we should be ignoring him and keeping his name and everything about him out of the press and not give him what he wants and that's notoriety. >> bad idea. >> as we continue with our audience, what do you think, mark? >> i think this is a great segway with the one we did earlier with anthony weiner. in the media, we need to look at ourselves a little bit in the mirror. what "rolling stone" is doing here is giving this terrorist all the attention he doesn't deserve and that is glamourizing

him. what we don't realize is that by talking so much about politics that can't keep it to themselves, we're taking the wind out of the sails of all the other really respectable and qualified candidates running for office. >> it's like oxygen. >> yeah, i mean, i think the big thing here is that when our enemies look at this, they realize if they do something terrible to the united states, they're going to end up looking like what he looks like, a jonas brother on the "rolling stone" magazine. it's so disrespect to the people who lost their lives. >> osama bin laden on the cover of time and news week. who did a thousand times worse than this guy did. how come "time" and "newsweek" can make millions off 9/11? >> there are organizations out there that specifically take

what good and wholesome and manipulate late young people to go against the values of their parents. this is completely wrong and young men are going to look up to this the same way young girls look up to models in a magazine. it's a false representation of reality and we should stand up against it. >> i don't think he should have been on the cover, however, i think there is something around understanding the complexity of what terror looks like right now and i don't think we have a good handle on it. >> did anybody -- >> why some on the left have a soft spot in their heart for radical islam. everything on the left stands for sex, drugs rock and roll. the only thing they have in common is that they don't like this country and i think you saw that. >> wait, wait a second. first and foremost and i got to address that comment. >> address it. >> address it, it's wrong. for purposes, why? because i'm on the left and i don't love, yeah, i don't love radical islam. >> if you're gay, you better not go to a muslim country because

you're not going to be wanteded. >> who's supporting radical islam? what's the point? >> we have a guy on the cover, there's little kids with their legs blown off that have no more legs and you're glorifying this guy. my point is -- >> listen to me -- >> you're wrong. >> radical islam is against everything in america that is right. go to saudi arabia. go to saudi arabia and go for a swim. go to dubai. >> excuse me -- >> let her finish. >> i'm not going to go to dubai with my boyfriend. all right. all right. ly put that on my to do list. i will say this about the cover. did anybody read the article? it could not have been more hard hitting against this guy. it was. oh, my god. >> at least they had a professor. surprised there are more angry muslim students. they said he was brainwashed by

his brother. they said flattering things about him. that's not true what you said. >> sally, go ahead. >> first of all, the problem in this country is extremism. people who think they should be able to impose their will on other people and whether that's radical islam of of any kind -- >> why give this guy -- >> i think it's wrong an part of it is because it laws this individual above the common good and collected interest. >> and while i agree they shouldn't have put this on from an editorial standpoint, i do think "rolling stone" is moving in the direction of an editorial magazine, taking on public affairs issues. i'm just saying. >> there is no excuse for the cover. no one should be defending the cover, but i want to bring us back to the political realm for a second. when you have an administration willing to give terrorists civilian trials, we have an fbi cleansing their guidelines for how to go about prosecuting

terrorism, when you have the attorney general saying he wants the terrorists in 9/11 to be tried in downtown new york, i'm not surprised that "rolling stone" would take their lead and not take it seriously like they should. >> let me pull you out of the realm. administration that won't use the term, radical islam. >> well -- >> that is true. >> men cause disasters. >> if i may make a radical suggestion here, the only reason the cover could be seen as a good thing is because it puts the focus on the home grown radicalization we have in this country. we have tv, hamas tv, hezbollah's network. you did a show on this. all over the united states, they said they're doing nothing about it. we are going to see more boys like the tsarnaev brothers. now, if this cover gets us talking about it, now, that's a good thing. >> we still believe in freedoms. >> we do and here is the good side. just like with the trayvon

murder case, when you look at it, the exact opposite is happening of what the culture wanted to react. when people are angry, they're having a conversation and this is making us realize we're becoming too tolerant in this country. >> i think "rolling stone" got exactly what they wanted. if they put bruce springsteen or justin timberlake on the cover, we wouldn't be talking about it. >> are you saying justin bieber isn't popular? >> not what they wanted. we got to take a break. when we come back on our special saving america, they are eye dollized, but all too often, sports stars. the latest example, major league baseball slugger, ryan braun, who just this week was suspended for the rest of the season for using performance enhancing drugs. our cameras hit the streets of milwaukee to get reaction from brewers fans. coming up, next. >> guys, one of a growing number of of athletes that lies, thinks

he can get waway

welcome back. not even the nation's favorite past time is safe from this downward spiral. now, just this week, brewers left fielder ryan braun was suspended without pay for the rest of the season. according to major league baseball, the punishment was handed down because braun used performance enhancing drugs. it's been suspected that the well-known slugger used banned substances, however, he denied it. >> i had done this intentionally or unintentionally, i'd be the first one to step up and say i did it. by no means am i perfect, but if i've made mistakes in my life, i've taken responsibility for my actions. i truly believe in my heart and i would bet my life this substance never entered my body at any point. >> sadly, that was a blatant life. we went to a brewers game to get reaction from their fans.

here's what they say. >> one of a growing number of athletes that lies, thinks he can get away with it and only admits it when he's got dead to right. >> if you cheat, you get caught. he's been caught twice. and personally, i think he should be gone. >> he's cheating and you're not supposed to cheat. >> we're in the store, you see his jerseys. personally, they should be on clearance and move on. >> i'm disappointed that he didn't own up to it right away and take his punishment and be done with it. >> i do think it's bad for the sport, but i think it's a little premature for major league baseball to just jump on brawn about the situation. >> i coach small children, so looking toup players like that, that part is kind of frustrating. >> i'm a little bit dispoints, but i think everyone makes mistakes. i'm not that upset. rooting for him next season. >> i think he's just made a really bad decision, but i'm still a fan. i'm going to root for him,

support him, get through this season. and you know, next year, it's a new season. >> welcome back to our audience edition of hannity. one of the best known sports casters in america, say it ain't so. >> here's the problem. here's the guy suspended and loses $3.5 million, but when he comes back, he not only gets the rest of the salary he's due, but then has an extension through 2020 worth 117 million. so, you know, where's the penalty? i think change the rule. once you are hit with drugs and there's no question and you are suspended, you have violated the contract, so it should be null and void. forget that extension. >> how many agree with that? and when you come back, then you, the club negotiates with

you again. >> o.j. killed somebody. sandusky, pedophile.

welcome back as we discuss the performance of the downward spiral in this great country of ours. we want to shine the spotlight on how some radical educators are misleading your children. this came in the way of the george zimmerman acquittal. upon learning the verdict, the professor wrote a column stating quote, god ain't good a lot of the time. as a black woman in a nation that has taken too many pains that i am not a white man and i'm not capable of taking care of my reproductive or voting rights, i know this god ain't my god. i think he is a white, racist god with a problem. so, the question is, is that a

message a professor should be sending to her students? well? yes. >> i'm sorry, first of all, it's really -- to me that we think that conservatives think corporations should not be able to pay their workers a good wage and all these things that private businesses should be able to do, but private universities shouldn't be able to employ the professors they want. >> hold on one second. college is a little different than high school. but some college classes are mandatory. this is, hang on -- audience of kids -- >> then don't go to that school. >> it's almost every school. yes. >> being doctrine nated in a different way. >> republican values. >> i'm sorry. >> universities have -- and i think they try to pretend they're all in favor when it comes to the color of one skin. when it comes to hiring a profess sahr -- >> i'm a proud graduate from the

university of pennsylvania. i think what this professor. >> was a liberal in your mind. >> i'm sure we have a different viewing of history. i think professors have an obligation to be provocative to provoke their students to think critically and from a different angle. this isn't the project. >> the problem is, problem is and i experience this, the lowest grade i ever got in school was from a professor at nyu that the first words out of his mouth when we started the semester, i am a communist. punished for my opinion. >> maybe your argument wasn't very good. >> we have in our own colleges in new york, we have, professor not to far from me that was implicated in the murder and she's a professor, so this is the right of this great country that we can do these things. on that side of it, that's the right of this country. >> having liberal professors is nothing new. this has been going on for

decades. we're seeing our middle schools and elementary schools. >> and common core, good point. this is a captive audience. i'll tell you what professors do have an obligation to do. kids can't read, write and do math by the time they get out of school. indoctrine nated as captive audience, they can't argue. he set the standard of bombing the pentagon, but to the point of liberals running the university system, they do. but i actually think this benefits conservatives more because they're constantly challenged from their ideas. come out with a better education because they're more well rounded and they know that universities, first of all, they there don't seem to be a lack of

conservative students, so it's not like this university system can't producing a wide range of students. >> number two, you know, maybe it's also possible that more pr professors are liberal. educating themselves and informing themselves. >> except for those really dedicated to education, it's a pretty cushy job. >> maybe you were just a bad writer for you to consider that there was some kind of conspiracy for you to get a bad grade. i just don't understand how we want children, we want people to have provoke, be provoked in their thinking and we want kids to read this. >> how about -- >> wait a minute. how about not, you can provoke, but how about you bring both sides into the discussion? >> then the conservative professor should have written a follow up. >> what's wrong -- >> majority of schools, public education -- >> you're just saying that. >> there is the conservative professor --

>> there is a wide diversity of opinion and people are running to not say their views. i think the difference is not whether they're liberal or conservative, this post modern philosophy that truth is relative and you don't really have to decide what you believe as long as you can back it up, it's all emotionalism, it's not right and wrong and that's a concern. >> we have to take a break. we'll continue more with our great studio audience. hmm. [cell phone beeps] hey! [police whistle blows] [horns honking] woman: hey!

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how many think america is turning to crime? raise your hands. how many disagree? why? >> i don't think it's on deklain as it goes through a change. i have faith in america. there are bumps in the road here, but i'm not going to throw in the towel. there are a lot of good people out there. look at the guys who serve in the military. for example, haven't things changed a lot in this country?

maybe not -- >> for catholic boys. look what the catholic church has gone through the last 20 years. penn state. washington, eric holder. he's held in contempt of court. things are going down the tubes. not good. >> historically, every generation thinks the generation before them was great and everything's on the decline. we're america. we'll bounce back. if you believe it's diversity that you're opposed to, it's a good thing for this country. >> all right. >> i get on the bus in the early bus with folks who get up every day to take care of their families, take care of kids. some of them are struggling, really trying to figure out how they're going to make it in america, but they still have faith. >> more people dependent on government than ever before. more kids born out of wedlock than ever before. more violence and murder than ever before. >> let me answer you. the decline that you were talk

ing about is the decline in the social contract of this country. right? >> america, is that america? >> that is the challenge. we're feeling very isolated. these failures are societial failures. >> '60s and '70s were terrible. don't throw in the towel. >> sean, sean. monica, yes? go ahead. >> listen, remember in 2008, barack obama constantly talked about the fundamental transformation of the nation. and we have been focused on changes the economics away from a free market system to a more socialist system, but i think the krcritical point about the fundamental transformation is whether or not the far left is changing the very character of america. >> people like tamara. >> it's anthony weiner's false, ryan braun's fault. look at sports.

it was never america's past time. mickey mantle came to the games drunk, mayes took amphetamines. >> we have to realize, one, america's stronger. out of adversity, we've always been a greater nation. we're in a tough time. we are funding a fundamental transformation. we have political issues. national security issues. but america has one great strength. the sleeping giant. we wake up when we're really challenges and we're being challenged now. we're seeing the rise, we're seeing the end of apathy politically. the end of cynicism. >> you know what i think the biggest problem is? americans have been indoctrineed now. as a result, 50 million americans on food stamps. morality has shifted. families are breaking down and i'm not sure how to reverse that. here's the mental condition. >> here's part of the reversal

of that. the rise of the tea party movement was a kitchen table issue. the rise of people who have bought in are americans that say this is not the -- we're in a fight. don't get me wrong, but ordinary americans have become vested in saving this country. sean -- >> my feeling -- not relying on the political class, but american values. we've got to take a break. when we come back, we'll wrap things up. special edition continues.

respond to what i'm saying and that is that america's now are in a condition to think they're going to get health care, day care, cradle to grave utopia. is that part of the problem? >> i agree with you, but my point i'm trying to make here, the trayvon martin case is a perfect example. it wasn't a racist case, we get these creeps that come out of the their cage, the jesse jackson, al sharpton, they wait for this, they stir it up and liberal media does this. >> america is the greatest

political experiment we've seen in human history and if something doesn't work, we have the opportunity to change it. wish that america is in decline are hoping that the experiment will work and it's what they're showing to save the world. >> there's no moral degradation just because someone's taking a social security check or getting government subsy duzed student loans. >> we've never had dependsy at this level, ever. >> we're not going to talk about this moral benefit happens every couple of years. every generation. >> here's the problem. >> the kids are not all right. >> we've never had $18 trillion in debt. one in five american children in poverty. >> so, you think we can't come back from that. >> now, everyone wants that life of julia, where the government's taking care of you from cradle to grave. there's no longer the sense of local community helping.

>> everyone eat got obama phone. i'm worried. that's why obama got 51% of the votes. tamara holder loves obama phones. >> okay, first of all, there's no obama phones. second of all, look. >> stop a second. there is obama phone. >> we have always, let's get to the issue. we have always been a country, always, and liberals believe this. that have partnered individual entrepreneurship and hard work, we do better together. >> my grandparents came here at the turn of the last century. 38, 40, $45 in their pockets and guess what? they didn't have guaranteed health care, an obama phone or social security. >> my grandfather went to

college on the gi bill. >> we're going to be broke like spain and portugal. >> right now, most of the people on food stamps are working. productivity has gone up while incomes have gone down. >> one thing that we have obama care now is what, we're learning that people aren't going to get hired full time because these corporations don't want to hire full time employees. >> well, i believe that obama is careless. i don't he's a good leader. i think he's done a poor job of talking to these people. am i hearing claps from conservatives? but he is. he's been a terrible leader, especially to the average american person. that being said, we're seeing corporations taking all of their money and jobs overseas more than before. detroit is bombed. >> how many playing government or causing corporations to move

their money out? i blame the government. >> i blame anthony weiner. >> all right. we got you. yes, katie. >> i wanted to go back to something that brook said. when you have a secretary of state that says what difference does it make when it comes to four dead americans? we have an attorney general who oversaw programs heading guns to people to be killed and then you have a president who says that these scandals are phony. it's kind of hard to take that. >> we are out of time. you've been great. thank you all for be being with us and let not your heart be troubled. the a more risk accident in the heartland leaving a pastor and his pregnant wife dead. this morning the search for answers inside this mangled mess

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friends first. let's get right to your fox news headlines at this hour. new overnight for you, another american has died from that horrific train crash in spain. the 58-year-old of houston, texas was badly injured in last week's crash. she died sunday. and this morning, the driver of that train is free on bail. francisco garzon has been charged with 79 counts of reckless homicide. he's expected of driving too fast through a tight curve. the train driver had boasted on facebook about driving the train at high speeds. the pilot of that helicopter which crashed and left five dead including a child told air traffic controllers he was losing altitude before he went off the radar on saturday night. the helicopter flew out of upstate new york and we're told carrying three men, a woman and a child. but the victims have not yet been identified. that wreckage was found yesterday afternoon in a rugged